Shailesh Kumar

Bioinformatician • Doctorate/PhD

Ministry of Science and Technology • National Institute of Plant Genome Research • New Delhi, India

Research Interests
Gene fusion detection in Plants

Fusion transcripts (i.e., chimeric RNAs) resulting from gene fusions are well known in case of human. But, in plants, this phenomenon is not yet explored. We are planning to discover the fusion…

Research Interests
Gene fusion detection in Plants

Fusion transcripts (i.e., chimeric RNAs) resulting from gene fusions are well known in case of human. But, in plants, this phenomenon is not yet explored. We are planning to discover the fusion transcripts/gene fusions in different type of plants by using RNA-Seq datasets. Further, we are planning to understand the mechanism of gene fusion formation and significance of fusions in plants.

Whole genome and transcriptome sequencing data analysis of Plants

In this era of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), there is huge amount of sequencing data available in the public domain. Any novel finding from these available datasets is major challenge for a computational biologist. We are interested in the analysis of whole genome and transcriptome sequencing data of different plants to fetch out the useful information from those datasets, with the help of bioinformatics tools. Currently, we are planning to study the gene clusters of secondary metabolite pathways in different plants.

Development of webservers, databases and computational pipelines for plant research

Development of database is necessary to compile and share the information with scientific community. We are dedicated to develop useful databases and webserver for plant research.